Games released on February 24
Eight games that still hold up, from Front Mission in 1995 to Hollow Knight in 2017
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Front Mission 1995
Turned 31 this year SNES
The first Front Mission, a tactical role playing game of battles between wanzers, mecha built from a body, two arms and legs.
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Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals 1995
Turned 31 this year SNES
A prequel following Maxim, an ancestor of the first Lufia's hero, in a role playing game with puzzles in its dungeons.
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Blaster Master: Enemy Below 2000
Turned 26 this year Game Boy Color
Jason and his vehicle Sophia cross side scrolling areas, and he leaves it to enter overhead dungeons on foot, hunting for upgrades and a key to each area's boss.
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Fear Effect 2000
Turned 26 this year PlayStation
Three mercenaries in the Hong Kong of 2050, in a cel shaded mix of survival horror and stealth over full motion video backgrounds, on four discs for the PlayStation.
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Metal Slug 6 2006
Six soldiers fight General Morden and a new alien race, each with a unique skill and now carrying two weapons at once, in the sixth Metal Slug run and gun, the first off Neo Geo hardware.
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Black 2006
Turned 20 this year PlayStation 2, Xbox
Jack Kellar, a United States Army special forces soldier, is interrogated about earlier missions against a terrorist operation, in a 2006 first person shooter for PlayStation 2 and Xbox.
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Gemini Rue 2011
On the planet Barracus, Azriel Odin, a former assassin turned lawman, searches for his missing brother, while Delta-Six wakes with no memory in a rehabilitation center, until the two stories meet.
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Hollow Knight 2017
Turned 9 this year
A nameless insect warrior explores Hallownest, a fallen kingdom stricken by a supernatural disease, in a Metroidvania made by a team of only three people.
